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Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trekking with the Best of Them

By Daniel Shultz

            The first blog post I ever posted to this website was a review of J.J. Abrams’ first Star Trek film. It was a short badly written one paragraphed piece designed to convey the excitement I had enjoyed while watching that film. I hope that my writing skills have improved since then.

            Star Trek Into Darkness is the gnawing but seemingly cleverly named follow up to the film Star Trek (reboot). It stars pretty much the same cast as the first one but with the addition of Benedict Cumberbatch as…

Spoilers after the jump.

(Non-Spoiled Review: It’s worth seeing in the theatre.)

Mistborn: The Hero of Ages. Reviewed.

Mistborn: The Hero of Ages review

(Spoilers in mirror are closer than they appear.)

            I finished the last book in the Mistborn trilogy a month ago. I have not written a review yet for two reasons: 1. I wanted time to think about the trilogy as a whole and how I could best represent the third book and the trilogy overall. 2. I am incredibly lazy.

            The Hero of Ages grows naturally out of the first two books in the trilogy. Unlike so many book series especially in SF/F genres each book in the trilogy stands on their own but also continues the plotlines of the overall story.